History is systematically collected information about the past. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of humans, families, and societies. Knowledge of history is often said to encompass both knowledge of past events and historical thinking skills.

Traditionally, the study of history has been considered a part of the humanities. However, in modern academia, history is increasingly classified as a social science, especially when chronology is the focus.

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Microsoft extends XP downgrade rights date by six months
Mary Jo Foley Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:07:09 -0000
Microsoft is sending some very confusing signals about Windows Vista -- the latest of which it issued via a statement on October 3.
Zune services on Win Mobile = ‘Pink’
Mary Jo Foley Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:26:14 -0000
CEO Steve Ballmer reiterated this week that Microsoft has decided against building its own Zune phone. (Chairman Bill Gates said the same thing back in January 2008, for those keeping score at home.) Ballmer also noted this week that Microsoft is looking to bring Zune software/services to Windows Mobile. This "news," too, isn't really new.
Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloads
Mary Jo Foley Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:32:15 -0000
Microsoft has quickly and quietly killed off one of its touted Live Labs projects, as my ZDNet blogging colleague Matthew Miller recently blogged. And another of the Microsoft incubator's projects -- the Volta tookit -- is missing in action.
A new mystery: What’s Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve?
Mary Jo Foley Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:22:06 -0000
It sounds like Microsoft has yet another Professional Developers Conference (PDC) announcement percolating -- beyond the Windows 7, Oslo, cloud OS (Red Dog/Zurich) and Mesh Platform stuff about which the company already has been dropping hints.
Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft’s planned cloud platform
Mary Jo Foley Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:28:16 -0000
Microsoft is gearing up to go big with its plans for its own version of its hosted development platform later this month. But Amazon.com isn't sitting idly by, waiting for Microsoft to rain on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Microsoft readies new ‘Dublin’ distributed app server
Mary Jo Foley Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:22:20 -0000
In conjunction with the rollout of its next-generation .Net Framework 4.0 release, Microsoft is readying a new distributed application server, code-named "Dublin."

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